Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.

Do not do that which others can do as well.

There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.

To those of my race who depend on bettering their condition in a foreign land or who underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say 'Cast down your bucket where you are.'

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.